Guess who’s crawling for dinner

by Gary Niederhoff on January 28, 2014

The future of food is crunchy, gooey, and slightly unnerving. In the episode The Pest of Us, Molly visits Tiny Farms, where they develop open source insect farm kits for people who want to grow their own bugs for food. She picks up a mealworm kit, takes it home, and then harvests the larvae and cooks them up for the Big Picture Science staff. Yum!

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